Quotes About Sensory

What I see is a woman who is not thinking about observing life but experiencing it.

The taste on her palate was pungent and rich, the flavor of woodlands and dark earth simmered in sunshine.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

The tree feels splintery, nasty to my touch; it feels Floridian, more reptile than vegetable, more stucco than stone. I do loathe this state, their Elba.

Leaving this changeling for George, she washed his ripe fruit, and bit and broke the skin. An intense tang, the underside of velvet. Then flesh dissolved in a rush of nectar. Juice drenched her hand and wet the inside of her wrist. She had forgotten, if she'd ever know, that what was sweet could also be so complicated, that fruit could have a nap, like fabric, soft one way, sleek the other.

So how could you ever eat another strawberry and not know that God loves you? I want you to think about that every time you eat a strawberry. Do you hear me?

But Dr. Steve says that music and sensory stimuli are essential in memory recall." "I've never heard him say that," Bex said. "Well…he told me," I said. Townsend shrugged. "With all due respect to the good doctor, I highly suspect that he's a moron.

There is nothing like a plate or a bowl of hot soup, its wisp of aromatic steam making the nostrils quiver with anticipation, to dispel the depressing effects of a grueling day at the office or the shop, rain or snow in the streets, or bad news in the papers.

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.

Haven's warm, clammy palms press hard against my cheeks as the tarnished edge of her silver skull ring leaves a smudge on my skin.

Acaso no basta con tener en la boca un chocolate del bueno no sólo para creer en Dios sino también para sentirse en su presencia? Dios no es el chocolate, es el reencuentro entre el chocolate y un paladar capaz de apreciarlo

I even ate chips because I love the crunchy sound they make. And I didn't give much thought to what I was eating or what I was putting inside my body, except hummus, of course, which is one of my weaknesses.

To wear a floral shirt is an experience.

It's all about the quality of the fabric, how soft it is and feeling comfortable in what you're wearing.

The thing that makes vivid writing is when the reader is in the body of the story, the body of the character. Things smell like something; there's weather, there's texture, there's light.

My problems are sort of more on a nuisance level. I can't stand scratchy clothes, I've got to have soft kinds of cotton against my skin, and I don't know why some 100% cotton t-shirts itch and others don't; it has something to do with the weave.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

I've wanted to write good pop music, beautiful pop music - not just throwaways. I've always wanted to make it sound luscious and beautiful and cinematic.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

Hollandaise, I would like to pour over my head and just rub all over myself. Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs.

I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this.

When you sit down to write a film, you direct it in your head. If you are writing a scene, you are watching the scene. And maybe it's different when you are writing a novel because you are thinking of it in terms of being read. But films are only consumed one way - through the eyes and the ears.

Cooking is exactly like making music.

Cooking is creating emotion.